Weall-geweorc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - weall-geweorc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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weall-geweorc
n. Wall-work, (1) wall-building:--Gang tó ðínum weallgeweorce (a monastery was being built), Homl. Skt. i. 6, 173. Sí hit ǽlces þinges freoh bútan ferdfare and walgeworc (cf. burh-bót) and brycgeworc, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 5, 13. Hé gesette hí tó his weallge-weorcum, ðæt hí worhton his burga (in aedificationibus urbium suarum), Anglia x. 91, 96. (2) the destruction of walls:--Aries byð ram betwux sceápum and ram tó wealgeweorce, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Zup. 12, 5.

Related words: weall-weorc. weall-geweorc

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